A Personal View Of War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEE FBFBGHGHEE BBBBIJIJBB KBKBALALBB| I NEVER pondered much on war | A |
| Except to think it was inspiring | B |
| To have a cause to battle for | A |
| To hear the guns and cannons firing | B |
| To see brave men rush up to death | C |
| Without a sign or trace of terror | D |
| To give their country blood and breath | C |
| But now I know it's all an error | D |
| War is a frightful thing I know | E |
| What if my boy should have to go | E |
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| Last night I leaned above his crib | F |
| And spent a little while in playing | B |
| tickled him beneath his bib | F |
| And watched his little body swaying | B |
| With innocent delight and then | G |
| It seemed I heard the noise of battle | H |
| The wails and shrieks of dying men | G |
| The cannons' boom the muskets' rattle | H |
| And shuddered as I stooped down low | E |
| What if my babe some day must go | E |
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| War did not seem a splendid thing | B |
| There was no glory in the fighting | B |
| No thrill in hearing bullets sing | B |
| No joy in men each other smiting | B |
| I saw but heartache and the grave | I |
| And misery and desolation | J |
| As splendid fellows bold and brave | I |
| Were sacrificed unto the nation | J |
| I wept with men of long ago | B |
| Whose boys marched out to face the foe | B |
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| I used to think that war was grand | K |
| That bugle calls were splendid thrilling | B |
| But now I know and understand | K |
| They sound the message to start killing | B |
| And when I ponder now on war | A |
| 'Tis but to see the terror of it | L |
| The glory that I saw before | A |
| Has vanished in the error of it | L |
| War may have seemed a brilliant show | B |
| It's different when your own may go | B |
Edgar Albert Guest
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